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Elevation vs Upliftment - What's the difference?

elevation | upliftment |

As nouns the difference between elevation and upliftment

is that elevation is the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character while upliftment is lifting up; elevation or promotion.

elevation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
  • The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  • That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
  • The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
  • The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  • The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
  • (lb) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
  • (lb) The raising of the —representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

    • Related terms

    * elevate * elevator * overelevation

    Antonyms

    * disgust * demotion * depression * diminishment * reduction

    upliftment

    English

    Noun

  • Lifting up; elevation or promotion.
  • * 1982 , Mark Loveridge, Laurence Sterne and the argument about design
    • For instance, the most plausible stylistic progenitors of Yorick's rhapsodic upliftments of language are the astonishing outbursts of Theocles in 'The Moralists'.
  • * 1993 , Amit Goswami, Richard E Reed, Maggie Goswami, The self-aware universe: how consciousness creates the material world
    • We turn to the spirit because the material world has nothing to offer us; we declare spiritual upliftments to be the highest virtues.
  • * 2002 , David Theo Goldberg, The racial state
    • Intermarriage, he apparently thought, would produce racial upliftment , biologically as much as spiritually and culturally, through generational enhancement.